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joeym35a2
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Re: Reg I.d. ?

Wed Aug 06, 2014 11:49 am

sitkadiver wrote:I'm curious to see what your impressions of the different mouthpieces are. I've dove the Hope Page and like it fine, but the USD's are still far away the best I've used in my limited DH experience.

After bench testing I decided the other board members were right in their assessment of the Healthways mouthpiece being a bad breather.
I have not tested the health ways yet but it looks interesting

I have used the hope Paige and curved on a Phoenix and I noticed a difference the curved usd one definitely performs better so much so that if the hope Paige wasn't hard to come by and looked kinda neat I wouldn't dive with it at all. I even ruined a curved mouth peice trying to fit it and trim it to work with a Cressi FFm just to see if it would work better. I will update my thoughts on healthwase when I dive with it in about a week

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joeym35a2
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Re: Reg I.d. ?

Wed Aug 06, 2014 12:33 pm

I'm sure Somone has messed with the healthwase before hasn't anyone tried to remove the plastic disk or make holes bigger or close up holes ? Or is it just that it's smaller that makes it breath not as good ?

As far as bench testing goes I just put regulator in bathtub if it works I then take it to 25 feet if it still works and performs well I take it to 55 . If not then I set it aside to mess with later or use it on shallow dives

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Superlite
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Re: Reg I.d. ?

Wed Aug 06, 2014 4:01 pm

that is a good lookin Sportways Hydro-Twin II. Hope it did right and you dive it lots. Had a old friend that dove a Hydro-Twin. but he and his brother dove the unbalanced versions.
Good luck with a really nice regulator. :)

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joeym35a2
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Re: Reg I.d. ?

Wed Aug 06, 2014 11:18 pm

Superlite wrote:that is a good lookin Sportways Hydro-Twin II. Hope it did right and you dive it lots. Had a old friend that dove a Hydro-Twin. but he and his brother dove the unbalanced versions.
Good luck with a really nice regulator. :)
It did ok it is now in my "sat it aside pile for later work"

It breathed a little bit worse then my mistral.
Probably will check and adjust ip later and retest .

Was gonna give it back to my mom to hang on her wall but she found out and said to sell it to pay down credit card
So I'll tinker with it later and probably list it. I have 3 differnt double hoses now and really only need two to actually dive with. Unless of course the new argonaught ever comes out in metal cans :)

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Superlite
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Re: Reg I.d. ?

Thu Aug 07, 2014 8:41 pm

Will be diving my Argonaut Kraken next weekend (16-17 Aug) and will have my Phoenix Royal Aquamaster as back up. Really don't think I'll need the back up.
Dive safe and have a good time doing it :)

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